Hi im building up a capri racer and would like to post a few photo's of the build up, i will be doing all the work myself so things could get ugly
A bit on my background; ive alwayed loved the look of capri's and have watched Bathurst since the mid 70"s and always wanted barry seton to show up the bigger cars. As i entered my mid 20's i had already owned a couple of capri's and wanted to race one myself so with the help from my brothers we built up a fairly standard v6 a set of koni's and a open exhast. I joined the queensland street sedan racing club andit went on from there. I had mild success with 122 rear wheel hp under my right foot and used to watch the rotories and torana's leave me for dead on lakesides main straight. Building a good hp v6 in those days wasnt easy and mine blew up plenty of times and was very frustrating. I retired from racing in 1990 to raise a family and now i have the time to build up another car. This is quite a good shell and doesnt have too much rust. I will be attempting to fit the latest mustang all alloy 6 bolt main 300 hp v6 and will run it in standard form untill some one builds some hot parts for it. Gearbox is a t56 6 speed thanks to my friend over the road who donated it as a worthy cause.
Anyway here's some photos and will try to do a update every week.


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Wow this is something to watch 300hp v6 and a 6 speed this thing will be weapon looking foward to seeing some progress and more pictures

Some good history there Jimmy.
Its great to see a new capri project, Im looking forward to seeing how it comes together.

Welcome to the forum Jimmy. Sounds like a very interesting project, definitely looking forward to the updates!

Painted the engine bay this week also cleaned off all the rust and crap from the struts and hilux diff and painted them.
I also found a rust area in the rear floorpan that needed plating
 
 

Thanks for the welcome fella's do some more on it tomorrow and post a few more photo's.

Nice to see another Ford being built up for Lakeside.
Can't wait to wave you past.
Sounds like a fun car when it's done. Good luck with it.
I can help with Capri parts if your stuck.

Hey thanks for the offer max i might need some after being away from the track for 20 odd years.
Anyway heres some more its pretty hot here atm so im not going to be doing much on it today my shed is like a sauna
The brakes are assembled and ready to got to the brake dudes at capalaba .
If your interested they are off a ve commodore r8 rear

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Done a bit more this week painted and polished the simmons, front are 7.5 inches rear are 8.5 inches.
I hope i can use them but ive noticed that the race products fully floating cambered hubs have a 77 mm centre, there's not going to be much meat left on the inside of the simmons hub after the machining to allow the wheel to drop over it.
Stripped a bit more of the underside and im nearly up to the diff area,not to bad a job either if someones looking for some experience on a wire wheel.
Ok here's some photo's.